Join writer, researcher and Black feminist thinker Lola Olufemi for a collective reading session which takes as its starting point African-American writer James Baldwin’s 1953 essay Stranger in the Village, which documented his experience as an outsider or ‘alien’ in Switzerland.

For the session Olufemi brings Baldwin’s work into conversation with a selection of writers who have extended and reimagined his legacy, inviting participants to read together and discuss how questions of race, gender and political imagination continue to resonate today.

The event is organised as part of the public programme for Harold Offeh’s exhibition TRUSTFUL STRANGERS INDUCE FEARLESS ALIENS.

About Lola Olufemi
Dr. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths University. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (Peninsula Press, 2026) and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. She occasionally curates and is a member of the organising team at the Feminist Library based in Peckham.